The Last Tycoon – originally The Love of the Last Tycoon – (New York: Scribners, published posthumously, 1941)
|| Birth || September 24, 1896 ||
|| Death || December 21, 1940 ||
|| Place of Birth || Saint Paul, Minnesota ||
|| Known for || Portraying the excesses of the 1920s and the attainment of the American dream during the era he called 'The Jazz Age' ||
|| || Mirroring events from his life in his novels and short stories ||
|| Milestone || 1917 Dropped out of Princeton University and enrolled in the U.S. Army, which was then entering World War I ||
|| || 1919 Worked for Barron Collier, a New York advertising agency ||
|| || 1920 Published his first novel, The Other Side of Paradise, shortly before marrying Zelda Sayre, the inspiration for several of his female characters ||
|| || 1922 Published the novel The Beautiful and Damned and a collection of short stories called Tales of the Jazz Age ||
|| || 1924 Moved to the French Riviera and befriended influential expatriate American writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway ||
|| || 1925 Published his most celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby, which tells the story of a man who pursues the American dream but in the end is destroyed by it ||
|| || 1934 Published his last novel, the semiautobiographical Tender is the Night ||
|| || 1937 Moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter ||
|| || 1941 Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is posthumously published. ||
|| || 1945The Crack-Up, a collection of Fitzgerald's short stories, essays, and letters, is posthumously published. ||
|| Quote || 'Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.' All the Sad Young Men (1926). (Fitzgerald's friend, American writer Ernest Hemingway, incorporated this line into his short story 'The Snows of Kilmanjaro,' adding the reply 'Yes, they have more money.') ||
|| Did You Know? || As a young boy, Fitzgerald aspired to become a football hero and wrote a poem titled 'Football,' which appeared in his prep-school magazine. ||
|| || During his stint as a screenwriter, Fitzgerald's name appeared only once in film credits for cowriting the 1938 adaptation of Three Comrades. ||
|| || Zelda suffered numerous mental breakdowns, and Fitzgerald paid her mounting medical bills with money made from writing short stories for magazines. ||
|| || Fitzgerald used Zelda's actual legal and medical records in his novel Tender is the Night. ||
|| || Francis Scott Key, the composer of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' was Fitzgerald's namesake and distant relative. ||
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Life Timeline
- Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 to Edward and Mary (a.k.a. Mollie) Fitzgerald
- Named after Francis Scott Key, author of the United States' national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner"
- Had been an alcoholic since his college days
- Claimed to have tuberculosis, but this was simply a pretext cover his drinking problems.
- In 1913 he entered Princeton University
- Was a mediocre student at Princeton
- In 1917 he left Princeton to join the army
- Was a part of the Lost Generation
- Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise which made him famous almost overnight.
- Married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920 at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
- On December 21, 1940 he died of a second heart attack at Sheilah Graham's apartment in Hollywood, California
Views- Once, Fitzgerald and his wife jumped into a fountain fully clothed. They were true to the attitude of the era.
Literary Achievements|| Death || December 21, 1940 ||
|| Place of Birth || Saint Paul, Minnesota ||
|| Known for || Portraying the excesses of the 1920s and the attainment of the American dream during the era he called 'The Jazz Age' ||
|| || Mirroring events from his life in his novels and short stories ||
|| Milestone || 1917 Dropped out of Princeton University and enrolled in the U.S. Army, which was then entering World War I ||
|| || 1919 Worked for Barron Collier, a New York advertising agency ||
|| || 1920 Published his first novel, The Other Side of Paradise, shortly before marrying Zelda Sayre, the inspiration for several of his female characters ||
|| || 1922 Published the novel The Beautiful and Damned and a collection of short stories called Tales of the Jazz Age ||
|| || 1924 Moved to the French Riviera and befriended influential expatriate American writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway ||
|| || 1925 Published his most celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby, which tells the story of a man who pursues the American dream but in the end is destroyed by it ||
|| || 1934 Published his last novel, the semiautobiographical Tender is the Night ||
|| || 1937 Moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter ||
|| || 1941 Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is posthumously published. ||
|| || 1945 The Crack-Up, a collection of Fitzgerald's short stories, essays, and letters, is posthumously published. ||
|| Quote || 'Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.' All the Sad Young Men (1926). (Fitzgerald's friend, American writer Ernest Hemingway, incorporated this line into his short story 'The Snows of Kilmanjaro,' adding the reply 'Yes, they have more money.') ||
|| Did You Know? || As a young boy, Fitzgerald aspired to become a football hero and wrote a poem titled 'Football,' which appeared in his prep-school magazine. ||
|| || During his stint as a screenwriter, Fitzgerald's name appeared only once in film credits for cowriting the 1938 adaptation of Three Comrades. ||
|| || Zelda suffered numerous mental breakdowns, and Fitzgerald paid her mounting medical bills with money made from writing short stories for magazines. ||
|| || Fitzgerald used Zelda's actual legal and medical records in his novel Tender is the Night. ||
|| || Francis Scott Key, the composer of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' was Fitzgerald's namesake and distant relative. ||